CURLY AND THE ROCKET

The cold winter months have been a break from gigging for us. We've use the time to attend to details in our life that will give us a solid foundation for another active performance season.

Curly ventured to Costa Rica for the month of January, where she immersed herself in the study of Yoga (she is a passionate practitioner and Teacher) at The Nosara Institute of Yoga. Loose, awake and refreshed, she returned to her drum kit with a newfound passion for her left hand and right foot. With Jon Bonham as her guardian angel, she's been working on her kick drum triplets.

Meanwhile, The Rocket has been refining his unique approach to incorporating slide guitar into his rhythm playing. The slide was amazingly well received in England and inspired us to incorporate a lot more of it into our sound. Revisiting old blues albums from Robert Johnson to Johnny Winter, and the omnipotent Led Zeppelin recordings, The Rocket is creating an aggressive approach to his Duane Allmanesque style that we all know and love.

May sees us back in the streets, clubs, and festivals. It's all on our gig calendar. See you then.

London's calling baby! And we're on the bus!

This just in: We've beat out hundreds of other applicants to be selected by CME Artist Services to perform a two-week tour in the UK this October!

We'll be traveling on a band bus run on used vegetable oil (good for an English fish fry!)on a pub, club, school, college, biker venue ridden ride through the urban, rural, island, outlandish, Scottish, Welsh and English capitals of British pub music culture.

These are some of the best "real" venues in the UK world and here's a brief taste of where we'll be:

-Riffs in Swindon where the punters pull down the shutters after midnight, tape the chinks in the doors with gaffer tape and stop the light of elicit enjoyment spilling across the fields to the goat lady's farm;

-The timeless windowless subterranean pub under the Patriot's MC in Wales listening to stories of one legged hang glidering and fishing flies illegally bound with fish steroids to woo the trout of the Severn;

-After hours at the Bell in Bath where the organic herbal remedies extend beyond the cider and the accepted closing time.

And we'll be met by a cornucopia of happy punters in cracking venues eagerly awaiting our arrival. We'll be sharing the journey with Chicago band "Steepwater" and "Banooba" from New York, so there will be much potential for relational bonding and conflict, and music and merriment. The stuff of life.

We'll take a video camera and keep a road diary, which we'll post online so you can take part in the adventure. Details of the tour dates/locations will be posted on our website soon, so spread the word to your UK friends!

Thanks for all of your support and encouragement.This is rock and roll.

Something about summer makes you feel like a kid- wearing shorts, riding bikes, going barefoot and swimming. This July we'll take a real summer vacation, joining the throngs of tourists for a visit to England and Amsterdam for a change of scenery, some adventure and a welcome break. And some inspiration for new songs.

Upon our return we'll head out to play a grassroots art festival in Indiana, and some cool summer weekend music festivals. We'd love to have your company. Check out the shows page for details.

We shot our first live video performance last week at our new favorite venue, The Strasburg Theater. That was fun! We have some work to do on it, but we're looking forward to sharing it with you, especially if you have yet to see us live.

Life is short and we look forward to catching up to you soon Friends,

Cheers,
Curly and The Rocket